Behind the Stars, More Stars
The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of Luso-American Writing
A new anthology of Luso-American literature featuring the story “Borders” by Hugo dos Santos.
Presenting experimental and boundary-breaking prose from women, people of color, and LGBTQ writers, Behind the Stars, More Stars imagines a more diverse and inclusive Luso-American and Portuguese-American literary scene, which has traditionally been dominated by male voices. Since its first “Writing the Luso Experience” workshops were held in 2011, Dzanc Books’s Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon has aimed to break silences within today’s Luso-American communities. Disquiet faculty Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar appear alongside up-and-coming writers from the workshops, such as Traci Brimhall, Megan Fernandes, Hugo Dos Santos, and previously unpublished women writers.
A Child in Ruins is the first English translation of the poetry of José Luís Peixoto. Published by Writ Large Press, the collection represents a selection from Peixoto's three books of poetry: A Criança em Ruínas (The Child in Ruins), first published in 2001, A Casa, a Escuridão (The House, the Darkness), first published in 2002, and Gaveta de Papéis (Paper Drawer), first published in 2008. A Criança em Ruínas won the 2001 Award of the Portuguese Society of Authors as the best book of poetry published that year.
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**A Child in Ruins is a staff pick at The Paris Review**
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"José Luís Peixoto is one of the most surprising revelations from recent Portuguese literature"
- José Saramago, Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness
“This book is a love letter to the place where I grew up, and the account of my heartbreak at moving beyond it. The book was written long before I left the Ironbound, and in hindsight I wonder if, even back then, I was trying to justify to myself the decision I had already made.”
